About me

I wanted to be a writer, but became a librarian instead. I lost my job as a librarian, and somehow found work as a writer. Life is strange.

I am a native of Syracuse, NY, and I attended Hamilton College and SUNY Albany’s library school school of information studies. I’m a librarian by profession. I look like an awful lot like your stereotype of a librarian, even if I’m not always employed as one. I have glasses and sensible shoes and cardigans and stuff.

In my quest for full-time permanent employment, since finishing college I’ve worked in a hotel, a mall management company, a call center, two sprawling government agencies, two colleges, and a newspaper. Currently I am an assistant editor at The Consumerist, a contributor to All Over Albany, an academic library paraprofessional, and a freelance researcher and writer.

I live in Albany, NY with two humans, two hamsters, and five fish. I enjoy sewing, knitting, embroidery, reading, stockpiling books and fabric, nerdy television, causing trouble on the Internet, and cooking.

Paint Tomorrow Blue started as A Bird’s Life in summer 2005. It started on Blogger 1.0, and now runs on WordPress 2.7.

I am gradually moving over some content from other online journals I’ve kept, dating back to 2000. The earliest posts here as of this writing are from February 2003.

What’s “Paint Tomorrow Blue” mean?

It’s not a political statement. It’s a line from the song “In the Lost and Found (Honky Bach)” by Elliott Smith. You can hear it here.